Archive: 18/02/2016
Study finds 50 percent of teens visiting emergency department report peer violence, cyberbullying
A study from Hasbro Children's Hospital has found that nearly 50 percent of teens seen in the emergency department for any reason report peer violence and nearly 50 percent also report being the victims of cyberbullying. ...
Feb 18, 2016
Chemotherapy before chemoradiation shows no survival advantage in head and neck cancer
Head and neck cancer patients who receive chemotherapy prior to radiation therapy (induction chemotherapy or IC) rather than the standard treatment that combines chemotherapy with radiation (chemoradiation or CRT) show no ...
Feb 18, 2016
Chemoradiation may increase survival for a subset of elderly head and neck cancer patients
The addition of chemotherapy (CT) to radiation therapy (RT) improves survival rates among a subset of elderly head and neck cancer patients, specifically those ages 71 to 79 with low comorbidity scores and advanced disease ...
Feb 18, 2016
Some aging treatments shown to have opposite effects on males and females
What helps her live longer might be harmful to him, according to a new study that may shed light on how and why organisms age.
Feb 18, 2016
Key hurdle overcome in the development of a drug against cystic fibrosis
Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology and McGill University in Montreal (Canada) have taken an important step towards developing a drug against cystic fibrosis. In people suffering from this illness the CFTR ...
Feb 18, 2016